quadrille
A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much…A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
» It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
Meaning
6 sensesA dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
The music for this dance.
Quadrille
кадри́льkadrílʹ
music for dancing the quadrille
A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
A square tiling of the plane.
Examples
1 sentencesIt was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
Translations
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Origin
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“squFrench, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
Term used by John Horton Conway.
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Forms
plural: quadrilles| Singular | quadrille |
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